I’m driven to distraction by Simon Mayo and Jo Whiley's Radio 2 show

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Everyone knows that good radio is the best way of making car journeys go faster. A gripping drama or a hard-hitting political interview often do the trick, but sometimes there’s nothing like proper music and cheery voices to make the miles fly by. And when you find a drivetime show that pushes all of your buttons, you don’t want anyone messing with it.

Which is, sadly, what Radio 2 have done. Simon Mayo’s Drivetime was overhauled two weeks ago as part of a major shake-up of the station’s schedule, but the results of the Jo Whiley & Simon Mayo show (Monday to Friday) have so far, to use the obvious metaphor, driven me to distraction.